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Photo Realistic Painting
Alright, what’s so interesting about 3 guys standing beside a photo? Except that the photo is actually a painting! This is a photo realistic painting of Tica by Dru Blair, the guy in the center. Check out the stages in the painting as well as a close up in the 3 pics after the jump.
Source: Dru Blair
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May 27th, 2007 at 4:14 am
No way!
May 27th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Thats bollocks
May 28th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Here’s how he did it.
You take a photo, and in photoshop, you take the erase tool and go over the image. Then you post the “working” images in a ‘work-in-progress’ gallery, then you pose the ‘finished portrait’ by some airbrush paints and an airbrush, with your home-boys looking on. Then you post it on a blog site such as Hemmy.
Oh, by-the-way… the girl was photoshoped onto the canvas after the photo of the 3 guys were taken.
Buhahhahaaa… who you tryin’ to kid anyway???
June 19th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Excellent detective work, vogueboy!
Here’s some real art.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Guys this is the most famous photo realistic artist in his country. This kind of painting by airbrush is teached in the most notorious art school all over the world. It’s not a fake.
August 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Elementary photoshop work. I could do that, along with every 6th grader who can click a mouse.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 am
It’s real. This guy was featured in Airbrush magazine a while back. His work is amazing.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Who in the world would seriously think it was fake? Perhaps you armchair detectives can tell me how he would then proceed to ‘photoshop’ his seminars? If nothing else, people’s disbelief is a testament to the skill of the artist.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
ammmmmmmazing, mind blowing……!
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 am
It really isn’t quite as impressive as you all might think. Achieving such a convincing effect in airbrush is rather easy when compared to photo-realistic work done with traditional oil paint. Here are just a few examples of paintings done with traditional oil paint. –
http://www.thewaichulisstudio.net/ArtistsGallery.html
Now I’m not railing against Blair’s work. He is very skilled and has really mastered his medium, but give credit where credit is due.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I have been airbrushing for 30 years and I am considered one of the best photorealistic technicians in the world. I feel certain that although Dru Blair has produced many accomplished
paintings of aircraft and objects, this portrait has texture and detail which indicate a photographic source. It could not have been done in the simple way or in the short period of time that the explanation shows. It seems to be an exercise in self-promotion designed to fool
the vast majority of viewers who simply do not know any better.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 am
While technically impressive there is no style… nothing of the artist in this airbrushed painting… he is nothing more than a slow photographer using the wrong equipment!
July 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I really have to disagree. I believe the artist is completely in the painting. A lot of people will probably argue with this, I believe because they can’t do it themselves, but I think art is being able to mimic something. I mean the oldest paintings we know of were attempts to accurately convey something. Not necessarily exactly, but the better conveyed, I think the more the talent. I mean seriously, few people can do this. I think it’s art in its most pure form. I don’t respect artist’s work made by an artist that can’t do realism to at least some reasonable degree. Or at least mimic something in some accuracy in their own style like in a cartoon. But if all they ever do are random lines on a piece of paper then I think they are overrated. I have been working on photorealism and I’m close. People will ask me if my works are photographs but I easily see they aren’t and they aren’t nearly as good as this. Anyone entering the artprize.com competition?
September 14th, 2009 at 1:09 am
i don’t have words………………….it’s too good……………
December 31st, 2009 at 7:33 am
thats looks so much like a foto its has too much details and its …………………….. to good
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
What’s the point if your’re not going to apply any of the “artist’s interpretation” as Blair calls it? Just take a picture and save the other 69 hours and 55 minutes for something else.
May 13th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
hey man thats a awesome its the best painting i ever seen in my life. Me n my friend were fighting that its original pic or its not. u did a fantastic job man .
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:53 am
the guy on the left looks like that one guy from the movie Inception
AMAZING PAINTING ALTHOUGH… I think its real
took him 70 hours haha. that sux 
March 11th, 2011 at 3:57 am
Hello you silly silly people did non of you ever heard of dru blair look her up and you will see that this is so real.
April 4th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
WOW! I can not believe my eyes!
July 13th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
A load of bull…. This is a photograph. As an artist (photographer and painter), I totally agree with vogueboy and Cesar Santander. No matter how good an airbrush artist he is, its shameful that he’s trying to impress people with something he didn’t do and try to take the credit for it.
August 3rd, 2011 at 8:08 pm
It isn’t real art for me. This guy have skills,but not-so-real paintings are much more beautiful! It looks like an ordinary photo…nothing special…
August 14th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
wow!!! its awesome…
was it a real painting or a photograph???
October 28th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Loz, Vogueboy and Steve are a bunch of imbeciles whose only success in life has been to find their way successfully to the emeployment offices. Photoshop crap has NOTHING to do with this. It’s art, pure and simple. Get your heads out of your asses and open your eyes, you might learn something. Morons!
October 28th, 2011 at 9:59 am
…And maybe Caesar and Anthony are not very good artists!